Female teachers are being sworn at, sexually harassed and physically threatened in high schools by male students. They say young men are bringing the misogynistic ideas of Andrew Tate and other online influencers into the classroom.
Soo... how old are parents of these kids... is it my generation that is raising these kids, why are parents creating these kids, or what other influences are creating this situation?
I do think that it's a genuinely difficult and complicated issue, from the perspective of "why are the kids behaving this way". It's a problem of parenting; a problem of how the parents were parented (basically: "my parents didn't oversee my technology use and I turned out fine, so I'll do the same"); and most significantly (in my opinion) a completely new technology landscape. Parents do need to get better at parenting, but that doesn't let Meta (Facebook, Instagram), Google (especially YouTube), and ByteDance (TikTok) off the hook for algorithms that feed young impressionable people with abhorrent content solely because that is what makes their platforms the most money. Parents can and should be helping their children learn to avoid harmful content or restrict their access to said content, but they're fighting against the tide as long as the platforms themselves want to feed that content to them.
One thing that's less complicated is this: regardless of the underlying causes, teachers should not have to put up with abuse. Abusive students should be removed from the classroom, whether they're abusing the teacher or other students. Their education is important and I understand why schools and education departments are hesitant to do this, but the physical and mental wellbeing of others should be more important.
The shithead scions set off the other teens who are in fact just teenagers and doing dumb rebellious teenaged shit. The former will pull up or end up on meth. The latter will look back and cringe.
Come on. Why would anyone care about anything? Cos it's human nature. We should care, especially in messed up times like these. How else are things going to get better?
"Unless someone like you cares an awful lot, nothing's gonna get better, it's not."
Teachers should get paid way better so that people actually want the job. Otherwise we may as well leave the next generations education to big tech, and they have zero interest in anything but getting users hooked on content for their ad revenue, toxic or not... How messed up would that be?
Also why would anyone care about other peoples poorly parented crotch fruit.
I don't want to be around other peoles children. I understand why nobody else would would either esp for the privilege of living in poverty. If people want a functional society, they should prioritize the services that make it so.
Ain't it grand how day care costs so much and day care providers make jack shot compensation.
Universities charge a ton but most teaching is done by underpaid non tenetured professors.
As a person who has a teacher in my direct family, I can tell you that it wouldn't matter what preparation and training they are given.
Part of the reason is that they have zero ability to control the kids in the class because if they do, the parents will basically sue the school, rip into the teacher (Because little Jimmy is just their perfect angel and can do no wrong.), and you can do nothing to any child that speaks to you like that, in any way whatsoever.
The system is completely broken and the teachers just sit there and get abused from day to day to day. It's been happening for years now.
I tell you what, next time some little teenage shit tells you you're a "fat fucking cunt of a piece of shit" (for example, to mirror the linked article's language), and tells you day to day to your face, and there's nothing you can do about it. Let's just see how well prepared you are.
What ever happened to detentions, suspensions and expulsion?
Soft.
Schools need to start issuing "Your kid is a cunt" warnings to parents, with threats of abuse and harassment criminal charges. If public health staff won't put up with it, why should teachers?
Parents and school won't do shit. Call the cops.
Except in America, because that will get someone shot.